• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.640-643
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• 2003

We present investigations of the surface micromachining for transparent glass substrate, e.g. soda lime glass using tightly focused 800nm Ti:sapphire femtosecond laser. In this study, experiment conditions such as laser intensity, scanning speed, focus position were controlled as variable parameters to decide optimal machining conditions. This study shows clearly that laser intensity and scanning speed are dominant factors for good surface morphology. Using the optimal conditions, grooves with 50${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ line width were fabricated on glass substrate and their surface morphologies were investigated from SEM image.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.466-472
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• 1994

An Argon laser pumped Ti:Sapphire laser has been constructed and self-mode locked. Mode-locking was initiated by a moving mirror mounted on the ball slider and maintained by the self-focusing in the laser crystal and an aperture inside the resonator. A prism pair was used to reduce group velocity dispersion. The bandwidth and the pulse width of the mode-locked pulse were 11 nm, $1000\pm20fs$, respectively. ively.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.67-73
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• 1994

The simulation code was developed to analyze the amplification properties of the regenerative amplifier, such as gain narrowing, nonlinear effect, and energy saturation. To reduce gain narrowing in the regenerative amplifier, the input pulse with a symmetrical shape and the same center wavelength of the active medium should be amplified in the active medium with a broad fluorescence linewidth. In this respect, Ti:Sapphire with a low nonlinear refractive index, a high saturation fluence, and a broad fluorescence linewidth is the most appropriate medium for the regenerative amplifier. The knowledge and the important parameters were acquired for the optimum design of the regenerative amplifier.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.36 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2021

Over the last three decades, the development of Ti:sapphire femtosecond lasers has led to advancements in scientific and industrial fields. In particular, these advanced lasers show great potential for applications with bio-imaging and medical surgery, such as two-photon microscopy, nonlinear Raman microscopy, optical coherence tomography, and ophthalmic surgery. Herein, we present a detailed description of the theoretical and experimental physics of Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond Ti:sapphire lasers and its two-photon microscopy.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.254-254
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• 2003

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2001.08a
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• pp.110-111
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• 2001

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2006.07a
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• pp.17-18
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• 2006

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.200-205
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• 1993

We generated the second harmonic of Ti:sapphire laser in LiI$O_3$ and BBO crystals. Two LiI$O_3$, crystals and a BBO crystal were used, and the lengths of LiI$O_3$ crystals were 5, 10 mm and that of BBO was 7 mm. We measured the conversion efficiencies of LiI$O_3$ and BBO in the wavelength range of 780-810 nm, and compared with the caculation of theory. The measured second harmonic conversion coefficients were (1.06${\pm}0.05){\times}10^4\;W^1$(10mm), (5.28${\pm}0.33){\times}10^5\;W^1$(5mm), and (2.96${\pm}0.05){\times}10^5\;W^1$(BBO, 7 mm) at the fundamental wavelength of 794 nm.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.10 no.5
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• pp.430-438
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• 1999

We have utilized soft-aperturing by gain media to develop a high-power tunable Ti:Sapphire laser with sub-40-fs and broad tuning range. The tunable spectral range was only limited by the bandwidth of mirrors. We made use of knife-edge slits near an intra-cavity prism controlled by micro-stepping-motors to tune the center wavelength continuously. The tunability of the center wavelength was ranged from 770 nm to 870 nm, and the measured pulsewidth was sub-40 fs throughout the above spectral range. The shortest pulsewidth was about 17 fs at the center wavelength of 820 nm and the spectral bandwidth was 72 nm. At 5 W pumping power of the Ar-ion laser we obtained average output power of 440 mW~580 mW. For the cw and Kerr-lens mode-lodking conditions, we have evaluated the value of an amplitude modulation to be ${\gamma}=2.5{\times}10^{-8}/W$ from the calculated waists of a Gaussian beam on the Ti:sapphire crystal surface. Using this result we demonstrate that the generation of sub-40-fs Kerr-lens mode-locked pulse can be described by the Ginzberg-Landau model which is a weak pulse shaping model.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.347-355
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• 2002

We have constructed a high efficiency and broad tunable cw Ti:sapphire laser with a four-mirror symmetric Z-type laser cavity to increase the laser usability. From theoretical analyses and experimental data for a symmetric Z-type laser cavity containing a Kerr medium, the cavity mode size and the Kerr-lens mode-locking (KLM) strength for KLM lasers can be confirmed as function of the position in the cavity, the intracavity laser power, and the stability parameter. As a result, the slope efficiency and the maximum average output power of cw Ti:sapphire laser at 5 W pumping power of Ar-ion laser were 31.3% and 1420 ㎽ respectively. The tunablility was ranged from 730 ㎚ to 908 ㎚ with average output power above 700 ㎽. We obtained the KLM operation easily by self-aperturing effect in the Kerr medium and the slope efficiency and the maximum average output power of KLM Ti:sapphire laser was 16% and 550 ㎽ respectively. The spectral bandwidth was 33 ㎚ at the center wavelength of 807 ㎚ and the pulse width was 27 fs with a repetition rate of 82 ㎒.